In the summer of 2015, Bree Newsome, clad in black climbing gear, climbed a South Carolina flagpole outside the capital building to remove the Confederate flag. It was an act that was met with revelry in...

Has cinema become the de facto leader of the Black community? It would certainly seem so. After watching months of the new president entertain a Black "Celebrity Apprentice," litany of entertainers, rappers, former athletes,...